CHINA-JAPAN: Again Right, Again Might

To Shanghai the Dollar Liner President Taft brought last week a 45-year-old U. S. housewife who set sail for China soon after she received the following letter:

Mrs. Elizabeth Short 809 South 39 St. Tacoma, Wash.

Dear Mrs. Short:

With the greatest respect and deepest regret we beg to inform you that, when on February 23 at about 3 p. m., six piratic airplanes from the invading Japanese Navy were circling over Soochow, dropping bombs on an entirely unarmed and innocent civilian population, destroying lives and property alike in a wanton fashion...

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